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Paris, France - Course Descriptions - Madness, Mania, and the Cinema: A Psychoanalytic Approach

Course Information

Subject: Psychology (PSY)
Number: 207
Language of Instruction: English
Prerequisites: Sophomore Standing

Contact Hours and Credits

Semester Session: 60 contact hours, 4 semester credits, 6 quarter credits

Availability

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Summary

Analyzes alienation and delusional states psychoanalytically as presented in contemporary film. First studies acute hysteria and multiple personalities (Petrie's Sybil). Then approaches the elaboration of a persecution complex (Polanski's Rosemary's Baby), amnesia-disassociation (Parker's Angel Heart), and psychotic breakdown (Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly or The Hour of the Wolf).

Full Description

Analyzes alienation and delusional states psychoanalytically as presented in contemporary film. First studies acute hysteria and multiple personalities (Petrie's Sybil). Then approaches the elaboration of a persecution complex (Polanski's Rosemary's Baby), amnesia-disassociation (Parker's Angel Heart), and psychotic breakdown (Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly or The Hour of the Wolf).

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Madness, Mania, and the Cinema: A Psychoanalytic Approach

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